Unauthorised Use of Photographs

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cathyml Posts: 23275 Joined: 25th Jan 2010 Location: South Africa	quotePosted at 20:28 on 17th May 2012 I agree Edward & Rod, all my images are low-res as they upload so much quicker. Rod I expect you have been offered a fee or credit my responsible people, I have been finding my photos on peoples blogs, which get copied onto other blogs and so on and so forth. The original usually links back to me but then you loose track of where they have gone. I really don't mind that so much - but I do object to them being used by a commercial concern to advertise their wares!! It looks as though once you have put them on the internet they really become public property My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Dave John Posts: 22335 Joined: 27th Feb 2011 Location: England	quotePosted at 21:26 on 17th May 2012 Some sites have a facility built in whereby the 'right click' context menu does not allow saving the image. I have mentioned this to Chris and Sarah but of course it is down to their priorities and programming time. This however is only a deterrent because it is easily got round by making a screen dump and transferring to whatever image software you use. This practise does however produce images of even lower resolution, but as you say Cathy once on the net they are pretty much public property My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
Edward Lever Posts: 734 Joined: 22nd Dec 2005 Location: UK	quotePosted at 22:41 on 17th May 2012 I agree with Dave that blocking the saving via the 'right-click' context menu might help, but a determined poacher can easily circumvent this by accessing the file directly from the browser's internet cache My favourite: Pictures \| Towns \| Attractions
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